Authority Cited: Glanville [Glanvill]
Author name and dates: Joseph Glanvill (1636-1680)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; controversial writer; supported religious toleration, scientific method; later, existence of spirits (witchcraft)
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 266 Glanvill cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 287 Glanvill cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Nine Glanvill cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. are indicated in bold italic below. The edition used by SJ appears to be the 1665 title below as the first edition, titled Vanity of Dogmatizing, was 1661 and did not contain the defense against Albius, and the 1676 version bears a different title: Against Confidence in Philosophy and Matters of Speculation.]
Author name and dates: Joseph Glanvill (1636-1680)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; controversial writer; supported religious toleration, scientific method; later, existence of spirits (witchcraft)
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 266 Glanvill cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 287 Glanvill cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Nine Glanvill cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. are indicated in bold italic below. The edition used by SJ appears to be the 1665 title below as the first edition, titled Vanity of Dogmatizing, was 1661 and did not contain the defense against Albius, and the 1676 version bears a different title: Against Confidence in Philosophy and Matters of Speculation.]
- Scepsis scientifica, or, Confest ignorance, the way to science in an essay of The vanity of dogmatizing, and confident opinion : with a reply to the exceptions of the learned Thomas Albius / by Joseph Glanvill, M.A., 1665, London, Printed by E. Cotes, for Henry Eversden at the Grey-Hound in St. Paul's Church-yard (Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p. 152, has identified page numbers in this edition for a number of the Glanville cites); aberrance; aberration; abhorrence; . . . advenient; . . . lance; lapse; . . .
- Apology for Philosophy (a Chapter in Scepsis); ethereal; erect (cited as Granville's Apology in 1755 Dict., changed to Glanville's Apology in 1773 Dict.); hum; largeness (cited as Granville's Apology in 1755 Dict., changed to Glanville's Apology in 1773 Dict.);
- Scirie Tuum Nihil Est: or the Author's Defence of the Vanity of Dogmatizing (Volume 2 in the 1665 title above, the formal title of the Reply to the exceptions of Thomas Albius; Albius wrote in Latin, Glanvill quotes the Latin, and replies in English); flatulency; multifarious (cited as Glanville to Albius); notionality; opinionist; radicate (cited as Glanvill's Defense); rejoinder;
- Glanville (no work cited); advantage; animadversion; chaffy; deductive; derivation; designment; essay; frolick; solubility (new headword); unusual (cited as Granville in 1755 Dict., changed to Glanville in 1773 Dict.)